{"id":202,"date":"2007-04-17T00:35:17","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T00:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=202"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:35:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:35:04","slug":"the-lorax-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2007\/04\/17\/the-lorax-earth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LORAX &#038; EARTH DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Lorax\" title=\"Lorax\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/images\/MDA_Lorax_Seuss_58414_7.jpg\" \/>&#8220;Mister! he said with a sawdusty sneeze,<br \/>\nI am the Lorax. I speak for the trees.<br \/>\nI speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.<br \/>\nAnd I\u00c2\u00b4m asking you, sir, at the top of my lungs&#8211;<br \/>\nhe was very upset as he shouted and puffed&#8211;<br \/>\n<em>What\u00c2\u00b4s that THING you\u00c2\u00b4ve made out of my Truffula tuft?<\/em><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">Look, Lorax, I said. There\u00c2\u00b4s no cause for alarm. I chopped just one tree.<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">I am doing no harm.<br \/>\nI\u00c2\u00b4m being quite useful. This thing is a Thneed.<br \/>\nA Thneed\u00c2\u00b4s a Fine-Something-That-All-People-Need!&#8221;<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">&#8212; excerpt from <em>The Lorax<\/em>, Dr. Seuss<\/div>\n<p><font size=\"3\" face=\"Arial\"><em>The Lorax<\/em> is a powerful tale about the importance of taking<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metaplanets.com\/planets\/wikiEarth_files\/150px-Rotating_earth_small.gif\" \/> care of the environment. It is about the sad Once-ler who long ago destroyed a beautiful area of land in order to make lots of money. The Lorax is a creature that lived in the land the Once-ler was destroying. The Lorax tried to warn the Once-ler that he was hurting the environment, but the Once-ler was greedy and did not stop to take care of the land. Now the Once-let wants to tell every one not to make the same mistakes that he did.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"3\" face=\"Arial\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/shop\/product_info.php?products_id=23237&#038;osCsid=c1130895689c2617c15f4a6f270e6554\"><em>The Lorax<\/em><\/a> book to find out what happens to the poor Lorax and the sad Once-ler. April 22nd is <a target=\"_\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earthday.net\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Earth Day<\/a>, what can you do to celebrate?<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Play: <a target=\"_\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seussville.com\/games\/lorax\/game.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Save the Trees with the Lorax Game&#8221;.<\/a>and join the ranks to replant the forest of thneeds.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up &#038; Join:<a target=\"_\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/kids\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> The Environmental Kids Club<\/a>, a great resource for teachers, parents and kids.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Mister! he said with a sawdusty sneeze, I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. And I&Acirc;&acute;m asking you, sir, at the top of my lungs&ndash; he was very upset as he shouted and puffed&ndash; What&Acirc;&acute;s that THING you&Acirc;&acute;ve made out of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-books","category-peace-gaia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}